Making COLEAD’s resources and network available to the Dominican agri-food sector

On Friday 27 June, a webinar entitled ‘Los recursos y la red de COLEAD a su servicio’ was organised specifically for the Dominican Republic, in collaboration with the Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana (JAD).

The webinar showcased the wide range of tools and services offered by COLEAD, including:

• the e-learning platform for training in agricultural, commercial and regulatory best practices;
• access to the digital library and interactive sector data tools;
• updates on European regulations via the AGRINFO programme;
• the crop protection database and associated technical bulletins.
• self-assessment tools to help businesses evaluate their sustainability performance ;
• opportunities provided by COLEAD’s international network and peer exchange sessions.

These resources are designed to provide concrete support to Dominican professionals, helping them to continuously improve their competitiveness and market access.

A webinar aligned with the SIA project

This initiative is fully aligned with the SIA Project (SANIDAD E INNOVACIÓN AGROPECUARIA), which was entrusted by the Dominican Ministry of Agriculture to COLEAD. In the Dominican Republic, a major player in the Caribbean agri-food sector, this ambitious project, financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) over 29 months, seeks to transform food safety and the competitiveness of the agricultural sector. As a reminder, the SIA project has three main objectives:

1) Improve agricultural and food health and safety services by modernising infrastructures and methods to better meet international sanitary and phytosanitary standards.

2) Promote innovation and technology transfer by introducing advanced practices to boost productivity and environmental sustainability.

3) Strengthen the agricultural statistics’ system by developing data collection and analysis tools to support better decision-making and more effective agricultural policies.

Through this project and its related activities, COLEAD reaffirms its commitment to working alongside Dominican operators to address sanitary, productivity and market challenges and support sustainable, forward-looking agricultural growth.

This activity is supported by the SIA project (Sanidad e Innovación Agropecuaria), implemented by COLEAD on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Dominican Republic and financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) under loan no. BID-4909/OC-DR. This publication has been produced with the financial support of the IDB. The contents are the sole responsibility of COLEAD and in no way reflect the views of the Dominican Ministry of Agriculture or the IDB.